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Post by Abraham on Dec 24, 2020 22:27:49 GMT -5
...Is the bagpipes, especially when played with drums. Change my mind.
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Post by Aurelia on Dec 26, 2020 17:34:06 GMT -5
...Is the bagpipes, especially when played with drums. Change my mind. This feels rather wrong to state with Burn's Night nigh upon us... but typically when they play, ah dinnae ken but there's nowt a pair of trews betwixt em. Are kilts manly? I won't complain, personally... but trousers seem less... feminine. I can almost feel the unseen slap of my Scottish history buff friend for saying this. |
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Post by Abraham on Dec 26, 2020 18:07:38 GMT -5
...Is the bagpipes, especially when played with drums. Change my mind. This feels rather wrong to state with Burn's Night nigh upon us... but typically when they play, ah dinnae ken but there's nowt a pair of trews betwixt em. Are kilts manly? I won't complain, personally... but trousers seem less... feminine. I can almost feel the unseen slap of my Scottish history buff friend for saying this. The thing with bagpipes is that its keening sound is quite warlike - just listen to Ghillie Callum or some other sword dance piece, and you can easily see it as the soundtrack for a frenzied swarm of Highlanders rushing you with their claymore. But it's also got a mournful aspect to it as well. Warlike yet mournful is as good a characterization of the Scottish character as any, in my opinion. You'll note I didn't mention the kilts lol. This a whole genre of dirty jokes revolving around the hairy bekilted Scot. |
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Post by The Duchess on Dec 26, 2020 19:16:13 GMT -5
This feels rather wrong to state with Burn's Night nigh upon us... but typically when they play, ah dinnae ken but there's nowt a pair of trews betwixt em. Are kilts manly? I won't complain, personally... but trousers seem less... feminine. I can almost feel the unseen slap of my Scottish history buff friend for saying this. The thing with bagpipes is that its keening sound is quite warlike - just listen to Ghillie Callum or some other sword dance piece, and you can easily see it as the soundtrack for a frenzied swarm of Highlanders rushing you with their claymore. But it's also got a mournful aspect to it as well. Warlike yet mournful is as good a characterization of the Scottish character as any, in my opinion. You'll note I didn't mention the kilts lol. This a whole genre of dirty jokes revolving around the hairy bekilted Scot. Bagpipes make me feel all sorts of emotions, especially in old Jacobite (or Jacobite inspired) songs. By The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond, for example. Or Waes me fer Prince Charlie... It Was All For Our Rightful King is another one. |
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Post by andrew on Dec 26, 2020 21:06:15 GMT -5
I had a cringe moment while watching the 100th anniversary celebration at the Vimy Ridge memorial. They played a lovely "period" bagpipe piece. Except it wasn't period. It had been written especially for a movie made only a few years earlier.
Still - it's a damned fine song. ("I'm Dreaming of Home")
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Post by Abraham on Dec 27, 2020 1:12:07 GMT -5
The thing with bagpipes is that its keening sound is quite warlike - just listen to Ghillie Callum or some other sword dance piece, and you can easily see it as the soundtrack for a frenzied swarm of Highlanders rushing you with their claymore. But it's also got a mournful aspect to it as well. Warlike yet mournful is as good a characterization of the Scottish character as any, in my opinion. You'll note I didn't mention the kilts lol. This a whole genre of dirty jokes revolving around the hairy bekilted Scot. Bagpipes make me feel all sorts of emotions, especially in old Jacobite (or Jacobite inspired) songs. By The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond, for example. Or Waes me fer Prince Charlie... It Was All For Our Rightful King is another one. Skye Boat Song is an oldie and a goodie. |
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Post by Abraham on Dec 27, 2020 1:23:30 GMT -5
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Post by Woland on Dec 27, 2020 6:02:41 GMT -5
Octobass is absurdly large, the sound gives whales nightmares.
Taiko drums.
Why limit to one instrument? Roland Kirk could play 3 saxophones at the same time.
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Post by andrew on Dec 27, 2020 14:57:55 GMT -5
How does the old refrain go? The great gaels of Ireland are the men that god made mad
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad |
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